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Graceton, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ore City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75640. It stands on Gum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood quadrangle.

Graceton within Upshur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

385 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 385 fires within 5 miles of Graceton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,393 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning293
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service91
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 231
7 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-0318
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6176
7 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1999Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graceton in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGraceton-Tree down on Highway 154.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGraceton-A tree was blown onto power lines at the intersection of FM 726 and Myrtle Road.

Every storm recorded in Upshur County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Diana2.0 miles12
Bethel2.0 miles12
Valley View2.2 miles12
James2.8 miles12
Stamps3.0 miles12
Old Diana3.0 miles12
Snow Hill4.3 miles12
Indian Rock4.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378374. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.